A very gorgeous book that could be adapted to other uses - well done Linda. Beautiful choice of flowers & their clustering. Totally love the effect of the masking tape with glimmer mist.Thank you so much for all your beautiful products.Bye for nowMegwww.megsgarden.com

24 January, 2014

Although these cards were made with papers
from the same collection and were constructed in a very similar way, they look
very different from each other. The
papers used are from the Dreaming in the Meadows Mini Pack. I’ll place a list of the products used at
the bottom of this post.

Here
is the first card.

I
used white cardstock for the base and layered the papers with some netting in
between to give it a softer look. Then
machine stitched around the edges.

This
corner was curled over and held down by a piece of bling cut from the Daisy
Silver Trim to which I’ve added a few beads for some added colour. I just love that lace and had to have a
little piece peeking out from the edge.

The
stunning flower is the Ivory Heirloom 6.5cm which is, of course, available from
Meg’s Garden as is the gorgeous lace. The
two die cuts underneath are Marianne Creatables’ Frame & Swirls Die and
Couture Creations’ Starburst Doily Die.
The starburst die was trimmed a little to fit in with the design. The leaves were cut with my Silhouette and
edged with white puff paint.

The
wooden flourish was coloured with Versa Color Olive and I added another piece
from the Daisy Silver Trim with the beads in the centre.

The
inside was lined with two more sheets from the same collection. These papers are so pretty you really don’t
need to add anything to them. I love
it!

The
2nd card.

As
you can see I’ve used two different sheets of paper here but they are still
from the same collection and from the same paper pack. The base of the card is a pastel pink
cardstock and I’ve cut it slightly smaller than the previous card.

I’ve
used the same two dies as before but without trimming this time. Then the oval shape and the banner were
placed on top. The oval was cut out with
Couture Creations’ Oval Nesting Dies and the banner was cut out by hand and
layered with the same paper. The floral
sprigs were cut with the Honey Blossom Sprig Die from Memory Box.

This
gorgeous flower is the Ivory Primula to which I’ve just added some autumn
leaves.

A close-up
of the sprigs.

I’ve
just used a couple of strips of the paper for the inside this time and edged
them with Martha Stewart’s Doily Border Punch.

…
And there you are!! Two cards made with
basically the same materials and yet they look very different. When you find a design that you love, you
can use it again and again and by just changing the paper or adding or changing
a few elements, your cards will look very different and no-one would know they
are basically the same design.

Thank
you so much for visiting Meg’s Garden today.

Here
is the list of Meg’s Garden products used:

S118
- Dreaming in the Meadows Mini Pack

9213iv
- Ivory Heirloom Flower

325iv
– Ivory Primula Flower

RBY36
– Daisy Silver Trim

L2920
– White 1.6cm Lace

Marg
oxox'

They are so beautiful - well done Marg. Love the effect of the netting & the peek a boo lace under the curled corners. Thanks for showing us how to vary designs - quite amazing.Bye for nowMegwww.megsgarden.com

21 January, 2014

Welcome to the New Year. Lots of exciting things are on the drawing board here. Just back from CHA with so many new products & ideas buzzing around in my head I am not sure where to start.

Denise is hard at work with her new collection which is expected to be ready at the end of the month. Sneak peaks look fab.

Meanwhile we have some new papers that are at both extremes.

The first one is for those unusual projects which require a unique paper -

this is it: Rusty Corrugated Iron 3500

In the middle of the two extremes is a fun paper pack with six images of ephemera - vintage map of Paris in the 1800s, vintage writing, some French ads & a coffee coloured piece of music. These can be used as backgrounds on cards; tear & distress the edges for pieces to add to projects & also for scrapbooking. The papers are 145mm square.

20 January, 2014

I think 'play' is a serious understatement & I know you will agree....

Look at the following fantasy on what you can create with a 'Pack of Tags'

'Hi, Gayle here. Earlier this year I asked Meg for a few tags.........she sent me a whole pack of all sorts of different sizes. Now, I also had lots of scraps of Meg's paper left over from other projects so thought I would combine the two. That's one of the great things about these beautiful papers, they are so heavily patterned and detailed that even the tiniest scraps can be used up on other projects. There's room in this little book to add a couple of tiny photos, as well as little envelopes to tuck some journalling into. All papers are from....THE COUTURE COLLECTION and THE FORGET ME NOT COLLECTIONS 1 & 2. All the TAGS, the little HAND and HEART CHARMS, VELVET FLOWERS and PAPER DOILY are also from Meg's Garden. A tag book is a pretty and fun way to use up tiny scraps of beautiful paper.'

The above 2 pics are what Gayle calls 'collage of the tag book'. She asked me if I wanted pics of the individual tags - I said yes please - I wanted more of this awesome little book.

Following are the pics: 7 tags = 14 pics

The lowly tag is no longer lowly ....

Well done Gayle - totally awesome - love all the elements & especially how you combined many collections of Denise Ann's papers -fabulous

18 January, 2014

Adriana has us all visiting Paris in her time travel adventure - we have saved fares & hotels because she has presented us with the best of Vintage Paris.

Front cover of the Book

Back cover of book

Adriana describes her project:

"Bonjour Paris"

'I wanted to create a theme around Paris.

Paris is such a magical city, which one day I would love to visit.

I created a book cover which holds an accordion set of pages about vintage Paris. This is a keepsake that holds a memento of a time in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was built for the World Fair in early 1889. It was to hard to bring it down so they left it there.

120 years on and it is the very symbol of Paris. A great work of Art.

This book is cover on the front and back, inside this is a folded accordion pages decorated with vintage paris pictures and vintage french ladies.

The accordion pages are just black card stock with patterned papers on top, just showing a little of the black card stock around creating a border. Then the photos have a border of cream stock card, then black stock card and that's all it is all flat.'

How fantastic are these projects?

Beautifully done Adriana - love the layering in the book; so many elements to amaze